Originally Posted By: NightHiker
...a nice coat of tincture of benzoine.

THAT brings back memories: At the start of the rowing season in high school, the nurse would have a line out the infirmary door, of kids with blistered hands. She'd spray the stuff on, and her assistant would dust us with talcum. She never used anything else...except a withering look, on the whiners;-)
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